5 Women Share How They Asked For A Divorce

We would have paid a lot of money to be a fly on the wall when Angelina Jolie told Brad Pitt she was outtie. (Honestly, we're still in denial about that divorce.) Did she take a breather after their alleged argument on a private plane to regroup, or did she blurt it out during all the drama? Chances are we'll never know, but, y'know, since they're humans, we'll go ahead and guess that it was a tough moment for both of them.

While not as TMZ-worthy as a celeb split, we asked 5 women how they dropped the d-bomb and what went down afterward.

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"When the woman my husband was cheating on me with called me and filled me in on the details, I immediately packed up my stuff and left the house. I didn’t tell him where I was going, and I didn’t answer any of his calls. Honestly, I wanted him to figure out that I found out about his affair, and it was over. I wanted him to get the hint. I ended up going to my mom’s house 200 miles away and staying there for a while. She helped me hire a divorce lawyer and get everything together. He eventually figured out where I was and drove to my mom’s house. When he got there, my mom wouldn’t let him inside and told him that I wanted a divorce. She said, 'The next time you can talk to her is in court.' It was messy, for sure, but I just didn’t want him to try to talk me into going home with him." —Shelby W., 31

"It was kind of like an Eat, Pray, Love situation. I fell out of love with my husband after 3 years of marriage and 6 years of dating. We met when we were in our early 20s, and we just kind of grew apart. I had a feeling he agreed with me about that because we hardly spoke. We lived our own lives in the same house. I didn’t want to break his heart, so I wrote him a letter about everything I was feeling. At the end, I asked if he felt the same way, and if he did, I suggested that we get a divorce. He agreed, and our marriage ended very peacefully. We are still friends 2 years later." —Esther P., 35

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"Wine was my liquid courage to help me finally tell my hubby I wanted a divorce. I sprung it on him when he got home from work, and I was half a bottle of wine deep. I told him I don’t want to spend the rest of my life with a person who disrespects me all the time and makes me upset every day. I’m not a big drinker or anything, but the wine made my nerves go away, so I could tell him how I felt. He walked out, and 6 months later we were officially divorced." —Sierra D., 38

"I honestly think my therapist was sick of hearing me complain about my marriage and all the issues we had. One day, when I walked in to see her, she handed me a script to read to my husband, asking him for a divorce. It was a hint that I needed to do something about my failing marriage. So I left the appointment, called my husband, and read him the script. He knew that I didn’t write those words, but he wasn’t completely shocked that I was asking for a divorce. I’m pretty sure his therapist was happy to hear this news and probably wished he thought of writing the script first.” —Erica D., 33

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"Four years into my marriage, things were going downhill. Every time we’d fight, I’d threaten divorce and he’d slam the door. One night, after hiring a divorce attorney, I presented him with the paperwork I was filling out for my lawyer during a fight. He ripped up the papers because he was so shocked that I was serious. I was serious, and having a lawyer and papers to fill out made the whole process feel real. I got new paperwork from my lawyer and moved out to officially start the process of getting divorced." —Jane F., 29

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